| abstract |
PCT No. PCT/EP97/03560 Sec. 371 Date May 21, 1999 Sec. 102(e) Date May 21, 1999 PCT Filed Jul. 5, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO98/09535 PCT Pub. Date Mar. 12, 1998Use of lactic acid bacteria in the preparation of a cream intended to coat all or part of an ice cream. The ice cream is an expanded and chilled cream, coated over all or part of its external surface with a non-expanded coating containing 103 to 109 cfu/g of lactic acid bacteria. Preferably, the expanded cream includes more than 106 cfu/g of lactic acid bacteria, the ratio (e/g) between the number of lactic acid bacteria in the coating (e) and the number of lactic acid bacteria in the expanded cream (g) being greater than 1. The coating may include 1% to 70% of a milk fermented by lactic acid bacteria, 0.5% to 5% of animal or vegetable proteins, a lactic fat content of from 2% to 20% and preferably the strain Lactobacillus acidophilus CNCM I-1225. |